Convenient Houses With Fifty Plans for the Housekeeper
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A galvanized iron gutter made of No. 26 iron, in form as per Fig. 33, and which runs four inches above the overflow line at all times, may be placed on the first or second row of shingles or slate, and will give very good satisfaction. It is certainly much better than a wood tin-lined gutter. VALLEYS AND OTHER TIN WORK. All valleys should be lined with twenty-inch tin. The con- nection between all roof and vertical surfaces should be flashed and counter-flashed ; that is, pieces of tin should b...e bent to con- form to the vertical and horizontal surfaces, and slipped under the slate or shingles so as to lap both horizontally and vertically. This is the flashing. The counter-flashings are the lapped 240 CONVENIENT HOUSES. Pieces of tin which extend into the vertical surfaces, and down over the flashings proper. All wood-work which projects in excess of one and three- eighths inch from any vertical surface, should be covered with tin. Hip and ridge coping should be covered with tin in the manner described in chapter where roofs are considered.
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